Re: Computer programming for linguists

In article <1172434513.969128.302640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

Computer "languages" aren't like human languages, so they don't have
the characteristics that linguistic analysis is designed to analyze.

Victor Yngve, who was an AI pioneer in the 1950s, designed a computer
language called COMIT II (I suppose there was a COMIT I at some point)
that operates sort of like an early Chomskyan transformational
grammar. Is that what you're looking for?

I'm more interested in how linguists think about computer programming.


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